Materials at the Mesoscale

Los Alamos’s bold proposal to understand and control material properties READ MORE

Borrowing Nature’s Polymers

Los Alamos scientists are learning to mimic some of nature’s greatest materials-science inventions—and improve upon them READ MORE

Fighting Tuberculosis in the 21st Century

Los Alamos research reveals how multidrug-resistant strains of TB recover their fitness after adapting to antibiotic treatments READ MORE

Battlefield MRI

Ultra-low magnetic field MRI technology delivers medical imaging to the places it's needed most READ MORE

The Water-Energy Nexus

Water and energy resources are interdependent—using one requires the other. This presents a particular challenge in the American West, where energy demand continues to rise as water supply threatens to fall READ MORE

Forecasting disease using Wikipedia

Scientists can monitor and forecast diseases around the globe more effectively by analyzing views of Wikipedia articles READ MORE

ATHENA desktop human “body” reduces need for animal drug tests

ATHENA project team is developing four human organ constructs that are based on a significantly miniaturized platform READ MORE

Los Alamos laser selected for 2020 Mars mission

SuperCam builds upon the successful capabilities demonstrated aboard the Curiosity Rover during NASA’s current Mars Mission READ MORE

Hydrodynamic experiment provides key data for Stockpile Stewardship

Hydrodynamic experiments involve non-nuclear surrogate materials that mimic many of the properties of nuclear materials READ MORE

Detection of methane levels 3 times larger than expected over Four Corners region

Study first to show space-based techniques can verify international regulations on fossil energy emissions READ MORE

Probing Fukushima with cosmic rays should help speed cleanup of damaged plant

Initiative could reduce time required to clean up disabled complex by a decade and greatly reduce radiation exposure to personnel working at plant READ MORE

Dark spaces could change the way we think about galaxies

Looking at dark spaces between galaxies and stars the NASA/JPL CIBER sounding rocket experiment produced thought-changing data
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World’s largest single crystal of gold verified by Los Alamos instruments